Ivan Iordanov

Experience

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  Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski

  Dec 2006 - Sept 2012

  Network and System Administrator

  Maintaining, developing and expanding the multi-vendor University IP network across several geographically dispersed campuses.Supporting SMTP, DNS, LDAP, Apache, syslog, Cacti, Nagios, NeDi, Quagga CentOS based servers.Participating in open-source and IPv6-implementation projects.Assisting in the formulation of technical requirements for public bidding by vendors and service providers.

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  Cisco Networking Academy

  Jan 2007 - now

  Cisco Instructor

  Teach university students and working adults classes on topics covered by the Cisco Networking Academy Programme. Perform labs tailored to the trainees' number and experience on hardware and emulated equipment.Train aspiring instructors.• CCNA Routing and Switching (and older designations of the course, such as CCNA, CCNA Discovery, CCNA Exploration)• CCNP Routing and Switching (and older designations of the course, such as CCNP)• Unix Fundamentals• IT Essentials

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  Interoute

  Oct 2012 - Feb 2017

  Lead a shift of over a dozen engineers spread across multiple platforms - IP, Transmission, Hosting, Voice, Facilities.Have ownership of all service disrupting network incidents and drive the resolution ensuring timely escalations (technical, managerial, external 3rd party) are employed to facilitate swift restoration.Participate in weekly managerial conferences and advocate the Network Operations Centre on interdepartmental meetings. Initiate and lead process improvement and workload automation projects. Conduct RTO (Release To Operations) testing and sign off. Show less As part of one of four shifts, conduct round-the-clock network monitoring (event management) using a variety of tools including, but not limited to, EMC2 SMARTS, EMC2 Watch4Net, SmokePing, Cacti, MRTG (various flavours).Troubleshoot network and customer issues (incident management) in a mixed vendor environment (Cisco and Juniper) with hundreds of backbone devices (PE) and thousands of customer premises equipment (CPE). Drive resolution, using broad configuration rights on the equipment, either via root cause elimination or service migration.Perform a broad scope of OOH (out of business hours) functions such as service activation, vendor communication, OLO (other licensed operators) engagement, infrastructure access control. Show less

  • Operations Manager, NOC

    Jul 2014 - Feb 2017

  • Deputy Shift Operations Manager, NOC

    Dec 2013 - Jul 2014

  • Senior IP Engineer, NOC

    Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

  • IP Engineer, NOC

    Oct 2012 - Jul 2013
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  National Electric Company

  Oct 2013 - Feb 2014

  Section Leader "Networks and servers", Department "IT support and system integration"

  Lead a section of several engineers charged with maintaining the country wide company IP network and central data centre.Formulate technical requirements for public biddings by vendors and service providers. Evaluate contracts and enforce SLA compliance. Maintain all public records (IANA-RIPE, ICANN-TLD Registers) up to date and in accordance with accepted international practices.Take personal ownership (on-call included) of all escalated cases related to IP connectivity and security issues. Have overall control over SAN and virtualisation problems.Improve network design to accommodate expected future growth. Show less

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  Tempus Fabris

  Feb 2017 - now

  Owner and CTO

  Remote and on-site consulting and contracting.Design and operation of IT solutions (networking, hosting, security).